same University and four from Australia were attached to the Architectural Office and 8 students were given instruction in the Electrical and Mechanical Office.
1.18. Altogether 17 officers of the Department were on or completed courses during the year in Britain, the U.S.A. and Australia. Some of these courses were taken while officers were on vacation leave.
VISITORS DURING THE YEAR
1.19. Mr. L. R. EAST, Chairman of the Australian National Committee of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, visited Hong Kong at the end of May. He was shown some of the Waterworks projects under construction.
1.20. The Minister of Civil Aviation of the Federation of South Arabia the Hon. Abubaker KOADEL accompanied by a team of officials paid a visit to Kai Tak Airport in June.
1.21. A five-member New South Wales Parliamentary Delegation led by the Hon. P. N. RYAN, M.L.A., Minister for Public Works visited the Colony between 8th and 11th August. They were shown some of the Resettlement Estates, the City Hall and some of the local port facilities.
1.22. During the same period a group from the British Imperial Defence College visited Resettlement Estates and the industrial township of Kwun Tong.
1.23. In September the Most Honourable the Marquess of Lansdowne, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, accompanied by his Private Secretary, Mr. E. M. WEST, visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and took a helicopter flight over the Colony.
1.24. In January, the Right Honourable A. G. BOTTOMLEY, O.B.E., M.P. took a helicopter trip over the Colony to inspect some of the Waterworks schemes. He also visited factories, industrial undertakings and Resettlement Estates.
1.25. In the same month Mr. J. D. HIGHAM, C.M.G., Head of the Far Eastern Department of the Colonial Office, spent 2 weeks in Hong Kong. He visited the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, resettlement estates and Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung development sites. He also took a helicopter flight over the New Territories to view water schemes at Shek Pik, Shing Mun Valley, Sham Tseng, Tai Lam Chung, River Indus, Plover Cove and Sha Tin.
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